10 Brutally Violent Movie Deaths That Came Out Of Nowhere

7. Death By Surprise Suicide - Hidden (2005)

It's not director Michael Haneke's job to make things easy for the audience. To the critically adored Austrian auteur, maintaining a sense of mystery is key, and perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than Hidden, Haneke's 2005 French-language mind scrambler and emotionally complex suburban thriller. Having received tapes of recordings of their own house, Anne (Juliette Binoche) and Georges (Daniel Auteuil) spend a good portion of Hidden not understanding what the hell's going on. But slowly the clues build up, leading Georges to the home of Majid (Maurice Bénichou), a man from his childhood, and an orphan whose parents once worked for Georges' family, and whom Georges' parents intended to adopt until Georges forced him out. Confronting Majid as the culprit terrorising his family, Georges faces this blast from the past alone in his apartment. Majid pulls a knife - obviously, we think, it's going to be for Georges, who takes a step back in caution, perhaps readying himself for an atypical Michael Haneke smack-down. Then Majid cuts his own throat, and a geyser of blood sprays over the wall behind him. Unexpected.